Malecek v. Tower Grove & Lafayette Railway Co.

This was an action on the ease founded on a breach of duty by the defendant as a common carrier, in carrying the plaintiff as a passenger on its street railroad car.

*18The petitioner alleged that the defendant was a corporation engaged in the business of carrying persons, as j>assengers, from one point to another in the city of St. Louis, as a common carrier; that on the 20th of February, 1872, the defendant was running its cars from Fourth Street to Tower Hill, within the limits of the city of St. Louis; that on said day the defendant undertook, as a common carrier, to convey plaintiff…